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This is for fun. Here is a list of characteristics. Choose one language that you personally feel fits each description the best!

1. Most Romantic
2. Ugliest
3. Most Feminine-sounding
4. Most Masculine-sounding
5. Most Whiny-spounding
6. The Most Soothing
7. Most Melodic
8. Fastest
9. Slowest
10. Sad-sounding
11. Cheerful-sounding
12. Annoying to Hear

Please try to give an answer for each. It's not meant to offend, it's just fun (and interesting).

2007-01-19 07:44:29 · 10 answers · asked by Rabbityama 6 in Society & Culture Languages

10 answers

In my opinion-
1. Most Romantic-French
2. Ugliest-Ebonics
3. Most Feminine-Spanish(Castilian dialect)
4. Most Masculine-German
5. Most Whiny-Portuguese
6. The Most Soothing- Farsi
7. Most Melodic-Urdu/Hindi
8. Fastest-Cantonese
9. Slowest- Italian
10. Sad-sounding-Russian
11. Cheerful-sounding- Bengali
12. Annoying to Hear-Ebonics

2007-01-19 08:41:29 · answer #1 · answered by Bedazzled101 3 · 1 1

Here's the best answer:

1. Most Romantic - Esperanto
2. Ugliest - Romany
3. Most Feminine-sounding - Cestina
4. Most Masculine-sounding - Deutsch
5. Most Whiny-sounding - Portugues
6. The Most Soothing - Putonghua
7. Most Melodic - Bahasa Melayu
8. Fastest - Polski
9. Slowest - Chosŏnŏ
10. Sad-sounding - Nam Viet
11. Cheerful-sounding - Nihonggo
12. Annoying to Hear - Francaise

Now you can choose the Best Answer

2007-01-19 16:37:38 · answer #2 · answered by Rowdy Andy 4 · 0 1

First of all, to the person who answered first - English is quite possibly the WORST language for global communication. Far to many words that mean different things, to many secondary meanings.

Now on to the question:

1. Most Romantic - Latin
2. Ugliest - German
3. Most Feminine-sounding - Spanish
4. Most Masculine-sounding - Russian
5. Most Whiny-spounding - French
6. The Most Soothing - Latin
7. Most Melodic - Italian or Spanish
8. Fastest - Italian, or Indian
9. Slowest - English
10. Sad-sounding - This one is difficult to answer - I'll get back to you.
11. Cheerful-sounding - Swedish, Italian or Spanish
12. Annoying to Hear - French

2007-01-19 16:03:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

1. Romantic: Arabic
2. Ugliest: That clicking language in southern Africa
3. Feminine: French or lispy Spanish
4. Masculine:Dutch or Georgian
5. Whiny: Chinese
6. Soothing: Italian or Hungarian
7. Melodic: Russian, Navajo
8. Fastest: Cuban, Puerto Rican or Mexican dialects of Spanish
9. Slowest: Swahili or Lingala
10. Sad: Armenian
11. Australian English
12. Annoying: Hebrew and Korean

2007-01-20 08:35:20 · answer #4 · answered by elf2002 6 · 1 0

1. Most Romantic -ARABIC
2. Ugliest - Farsi
3. Most Feminine-sounding - English
4. Most Masculine-sounding -English
5. Most Whiny-spounding - Chinese
6. The Most Soothing - Arabic
7. Most Melodic - Italian
8. Fastest- Hindi
9. Slowest - French
10. Sad-sounding - Hebrew
11. Cheerful-sounding - English
12. Annoying to Hear - German

2007-01-19 16:49:24 · answer #5 · answered by q8abat 3 · 0 2

The only one that i know for sure that is true is number 1 , Most Romantic is Romanian ( any ecyclopedia , history book will tell you the same )

2007-01-19 19:29:02 · answer #6 · answered by Diana 1 · 0 3

i'll answer a few---

1. french
2. russian
3. french
4. german
6. german
7. french
8. chinese
9. english
11. korean
12. spanish

2007-01-19 17:50:58 · answer #7 · answered by scarlett 3 · 0 1

all of these things mean nothing to me ,
English is the best all round language for global comunication next is Spanish
that is as far as i am prepared to go
sorry.

2007-01-19 15:52:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 6

I think latin is the best answer for all of them, because without latin we wouldn't have any of the romance languages we have today.

2007-01-19 16:13:19 · answer #9 · answered by roxy 1 · 0 6

ITALIAN
GERMAN
FRENCH
JAPANESE
SPANISH
ENGLISH
ITALIAN
HINDI
CHINESE
RUSSIAN
AMERICAN ENGLISH
HEBREW
AND NOW WHAT??????

2007-01-19 15:58:33 · answer #10 · answered by sin_talk 3 · 0 2

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